Reincarnation, Food & Memory: AMITAV GHOSH on What Connects Us in an Age of Climate Crisis
About this episode
Amitav Ghosh discusses his new novel 'Ghost-Eye' and the connections between food, memory, and the climate crisis.
“Imagining with precision is a very fundamental part of my work. When I sit down to write about anything, whether it be The Hungry Tide in the Sundarbans, or let's say The Shadow Lines, or Ghost-Eye. It's very important for me to get the topography right, to get the outlay of the streets or the house exactly right so I can actually picture all of that in my head. It's very important for me to have a sort of pictorial sense of what I'm seeing and what I'm writing about. Before I can write about it, I need to see it, as it were. So that's absolutely fundamental to my craft. That's just how I go about it. Like the Sufis say—behind the apparent reality is a hidden or batin reality. “ In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Amitav Ghosh about his new novel, Ghost-Eye . The novel is about reincarnation, but also a lot more. In our conversation we talk about the need to address the terrible set of environmental and other crises we face, and the seeming foreclosure of the imagination by the obsession with technology and the future it offers to us. Instead, we look to how we can fashion beginnings out of endings, aided by a renewed…
People in this episode
Host: David Palumbo-Liu
Guest: Amitav Ghosh
Topics covered
- climate crisis
- reincarnation
- storytelling
- environmental crises
- food
- imagination
Keywords
- Amitav Ghosh
- climate crisis
- reincarnation
- storytelling
- food
- environmental crises
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Ghost-Eye, The Hungry Tide, The Shadow Lines
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